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Have the option of collecting IBC’s of pot ale syrup basically next door. Was hoping to feed it to ewes coming up to lambing with barley, oats, grass silage and fodder beet. Would it be poisonous due to high copper levels?

With this broken weather all the time I’m finding it hard to get bought in store lambs dipped. I need them gone asap to fodder crops away from the farm as grass is for the ewes now. im thinking that if they are still damp from the day before raining but the day im dipping them and the next day...

I have had the teaser running with the ewes for the past 3 weeks. I don’t want all the ewes coming cycling at the one time I just want to make sure they are all cycling. I want to put the rams in anywhere between the 1st and the 8th of November and was wondering would it be ok to take him out...

a bunch of store lambs got delivered to me 3 weeks ago and 1 of them was 99% blind. He follows the rest of the bunch by sound mainly and looses his way a lot of the time however he won’t walk into a wall or anything. he would walk rite up to it and then just stop walking and look straight into...

I had to sow a 25% leafy turnip 75% rape for an environmental scheme. This is now being grazed off by store lambs but today just noticed that the leafy turnip is beginning to flower Is this poisonous? I’ve heard that it is

I have a lamb with a broken back leg up near the top where it would be meeting his body. Brought him to the vet and he said that a splint wouldn’t work. I don’t want my vet to be correct but maybe he is Any advice?

I’m getting tight on grass and if I put some of the ewes in on rape for the rest of the mating season would this be ok? The ram has been in a week already and I’d leave them on rape, turnips and beet then for the rest of the winter

Was just wondering how much 18-6-12 would be advisable to put out on forage rape. It’s down 10 days and starting to peep up. Rain forecast over the next few days here so should get going. I’m going for 18-6-12 as I have some left over from silage awards etc. I was thinking a bag to the acre...

Is there any benefit to flushing ewes before sponging? I always felt that sponging interferes with any benefits from flushing but perhaps I’m wrong I’m wondering because I’ll be sponging in 2 weeks time to let rams serve in a month and would allocate better grass to them if it was of benefit

I’m going to be buying beet this week to feed 80 ewes for 6 weeks. I’ll be scattering it across stubbles for them and they’ll have silage ad lib. I know weather will have an effect but the ewes are on average 70kg and I’m wondering how much per day they might consume?

I have a bunch of ewes at winter keep where handling facilities are poor So I’ll be bringing them home to scan and not bringing them back. There’re lambing April 7th onwards I’m wondering how late can I leave it and still have accurate scans

Can I use footvax on just certain groups say just the stock rams or replacement ewe lambs or just my pedigree ewes Or does it need to be an entire flock policy?

I’ve spoken to 3 farmers this year 2 of which used a Kerryhill ram and 1 that used kerryhill x ewes and all 3 praised the maternal ability of them. What’s there downsides? Why are they not more popular?

My father has a bad back and finds putting on and particularly taking off Wellington boots difficult. He’s looking to buy a ankle high Wellington boot and is looking for the best brand. Price not a real issue as is extremely important to his day to day work. I was looking at la chameau but...

I have a farm to graze for the next while. But with very different covers and fields and I’m wondering which to go into first There’s mainly nice covers but one field has crazy grass levels. I’ve seen men cut fields for silage with less grass. There’s some very wet fields and others are dry...

This is what we do at the moment but I'm open to suggestions on improving it. On arrival Lambs are fasted and dosed for worms injected with hep p, lamb bolus and given a triclabendazole fluke dose and left in shed on hay for 48 hours. One month later they are given hep p booster and whole...

I'm wondering how broken mouth ewes would deal with rape. Every year on an out farm we graze broken mouthed hill ewes put them to rams and sell them the following year after rearing they're ewes Works well as labour away from home farm is minimal. They've always been on grass only but this...

Sprayed off grass a week ago and would like to let sheep in to graze the bits that are around the ditches and were missed by the sprayer. Is this ok?

Spraying off, liming, discing, broadcasting and then rolling to establish a a grass field into rape in a months time. Plan is to graze from mid October onwards for finishing lambs. Any advice on what type of rape i should go for?

This year after numbering the lambs when leaving small pens their acting as if their brake dancing. Hopping, falling, loosing power in their legs rolling on their backs. It's actually funny only for it's worrying. It goes away after about half an hour and the lambs never resume acting like it...